ACLU to represent KKK in Georgia litter program fight

The International Keystone Knights of the KKK applied to join the "Adopt-A-Highway" program along part of Route 515 in the north Georgia mountains.

Posted: June 27, 2012 - 8:48am

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ATLANTA — The American Civil Liberties Union will help the Ku Klux Klan in its bid to join Georgia's highway cleanup program as a legal fight looms.

ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Debbie Seagraves told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the civil rights group will assist the Klan in its battle with the state.

The International Keystone Knights of the KKK applied to join the "Adopt-A-Highway" program along part of Route 515 in the north Georgia mountains. Participating groups are recognized with a sign along the road they adopt.

State officials announced this month they would deny the KKK group's application, setting up the legal showdown.

Seagraves says the ACLU is still working on its strategy for representing the group in what it considers a First Amendment case.

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I think the Ku Klux Klan ought to be allowed to clean up a stretch of highway if they want to.

In fact, I think the KKK ought to clean up ALL the highways for us.

They can wear some neat orange jumpsuits with "Prisoner" printed on the back, and shiny leg chains while they pick up all the trash and cut the weeds. We can even find some big old cops with silver sunglasses to ride on horses and watch over them while they do it, too.

Lets do away with the ACLU and the KKK. Make up another, Equal Rights For All Union, that way you dont have to be trash, to be served. You could even be a good person.The ACLU has littered up America, serving any and all that would love to see God out the door.

If an "Equal Rights For All Union" (I thought that's what the ACLU fights for anyway) were to be created you would have to include the LGBT population and other groups whose beliefs you may not agree with. Could you handle something like that?

It just sounds to me that he envisions yet another institution that only caters to a select few in terms of rights. It's my opinion that we have enough of those exclusionary institutions in existence already.

However, everybody has a right to form an exclusionary group, if they wish to. It's only a problem when these highly selective groups gain influence in the political world and begin to confer the exclusionist beliefs on everyone else.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

the KKK was founded as a Christian group, the fact that you say they are not doesn't change documented fact. The burning cross was a symbol that these good ol boys are shining the light of Jesus.

The fact that there are Christian organizations that are on the fringe of most Christian beliefs should help others to easier understand that the Muslim faith can have idiots in their fringes without tarnishing the entire lot of them.

I despise what the KKK stands for, and their actions in the past have been criminal. But ideas and speech should not be considered illegal, according to the 1st amendment, no matter how repugnant. If we allow that, it may be your ideas and comments next.

Religion is so open to interpretation. I think society determines what a specific religion believes. There are mainstream beliefs and other beliefs that were once mainstream, but due to the changing society have been deemed more ancillary.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

For the record, I feel like any religion, Muslim or otherwise, has the constitutional right to build a house of worship wherever. That does not change the fact that building a mosque on ground zero is a monumentally stupid idea that does no good and tons of potential harm to at least two major religions. Not everything that's legal is a good idea, and not everyone that opposed that mosque is a racist, bigot, or hater.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx

And, as usual, you are dead wrong. The fact that you are willing to accept the kkk claim to be a Christian organization means exactly nothing. As far as I remember, you have not been vested with authority to make any such rulings.

The term "Christian" originates in only one place, the Bible. Therefore the Bible is the only authority on just what "Christian" means. That book also tells how to tell false claimants from the genuine article.

You, on the other hand, see the kkk claim to Chritianity, as a convenient way to tear down and denigrate actual Christians, who make you very nervous about yourself. Of course you can't resist that.

Someone who would do a thing like that is not just a fool, but a pathetic fool. I'm done with you for today. You disgust me.

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Jonathan Swift "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Groucho Marx